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The Old English translation of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum in its historical and cultural context

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Did King Alfred the Great commission the Old English translation of Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, probably the masterpiece of medieval Anglo-Latin Literature, as part of his famous program of translation to educate the Anglo-Saxons? Was the Old English Historia, by any chance, a political and religious manifesto for the emerging ‘Kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons’? Do we deal with the literary cornerstone of a nascent English identity at a time when the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms were threatened by a common enemy: the Vikings? Andreas Lemke seeks to answer these questions – among others – in his recent publication. He presents us with a unique compendium of interdisciplinary approaches to the subject and sheds new light on the Old English translation of the Historia in a way that will fascinate scholars of Literature, Language, Philology and History.

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274.2 LEM o

Publisher

Gottingen, Germany : universitätsverlag göttingen., 2015

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411 p.

Language

English

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978386395189

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274.2

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Subject(s)

Great Britain
Historiography
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)

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